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Establishing the Manding Function of Communicative Gestures with Individuals with Severe/Profound Mental Retardation.

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Duker, Pieter C.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1993

A correction procedure, including interruption, physical guidance, verbal instruction, and repetition, was used to train five students with severe/profound mental retardation to reject unmatching referents to their gesture mands. Trainers are urged to assess student response when items not matching the referent of a prior request are offered.…

Descriptors: Body Language, Communication Skills, Discrimination Learning, Error Correction

Simultaneous and Delayed Matching to Sample in Gesture Users and Speakers with Mental Retardation.

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Brady, Nancy C.; McLean, Lee K. – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1998

This study examined representational matching to sample with 68 subjects with severe mental retardation. Participants differed in their expressive communication and included symbolic (speaking) individuals, distal-gesture users, and contact-gesture users. Contact-gesture users performed significantly more poorly on identical matching to sample…

Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Body Language, Discrimination Learning, Expressive Language